AIML - Machine Learning Engineer, Visual Intelligence Technology

Apple
Santa Clara, United States of America2026-01-28

About the job

In Visual Intelligence Technology team, we work hard to bring the best user experiences powered by Apple Intelligence. We leverage cutting-edge technologies like Visual Search and LLM to empower user-facing features like Visual Look-up and Visual Intelligence in camera and photos. We also advance our technology innovation in Visual Intelligence Technology and Multimodal Foundation Model for longer-term ambitious goals.

Responsibilities

As part of this team, you will explore how large-scale models can understand and reason about complex visual scenes, design and build large-scale training pipelines, and perform experiments at scales. You will also work with researchers and data scientists to develop, fine-tune, and evaluate domain specific LLMs for various tasks and applications in Apple’s AI powered products, also conduct applied research to transfer the groundbreaking research in generative AI to production ready technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science or related field

5+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining

Experience being a tech lead, and has been successfully leading a team to ship software to users

Excellent knowledge and good practical skills in designing ML platforms, architectures or algorithms

Strong interpersonal skills able to work independently as well as in a team

Preferred

3+ years of experience of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluating, and developing data collection/annotation/management tooling for LLMs

Experience with relevant deep learning software packages (Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch…)